Tag: Hardware

Dozens of Gigabyte motherboard models run on UEFI firmware vulnerable to security issues that allow planting bootkit malware that is invisible to the operating system and can survive reinstalls. The vulnerabilities could allow attackers with local or remote admin permissions to execute arbitrary code in System Management Mode (SMM), an environment isolated from the operating […]

NVIDIA is warning users to activate System Level Error-Correcting Code  mitigation to protect against Rowhammer attacks on graphical processors with GDDR6 memory. The company is reinforcing the recommendation as new research published by the University of Toronto demonstrates the practicallity of Rowhammer attacks against an NVIDIA A6000 GPU (graphical processing unit). “We ran GPUHammer on an NVIDIA RTX […]

A new variant of the Mirai malware botnet is exploiting a command injection vulnerability in TBK DVR-4104 and DVR-4216 digital video recording devices to hijack them. The flaw, tracked under CVE-2024-3721, is a command injection vulnerability disclosed by security researcher “netsecfish” in April 2024. The proof-of-concept (PoC) the researcher published at the time came in […]

The FBI warns that threat actors are deploying malware on end-of-life (EoL) routers to convert them into proxies sold on the 5Socks and Anyproxy networks. These devices, which were released many years back and no longer receive security updates from their vendors, are vulnerable to external attacks leveraging publicly available exploits to inject persistent malware.  Once […]

ASUS has released security updates to address CVE-2024-54085, a maximum severity flaw that could allow attackers to hijack and potentially brick servers. The flaw impacts American Megatrends International’s MegaRAC Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) software, used by over a dozen server hardware vendors, including HPE, ASUS, and ASRock. The CVE-2024-54085 flaw is remotely exploitable, potentially leading to […]

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term ‘backdoor’ to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains undocumented commands that could […]

The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented “backdoor” that could be leveraged for attacks. The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence. This was discovered […]

A new variant of the Vo1d malware botnet has grown to 1,590,299 infected Android TV devices across 226 countries, recruiting devices as part of anonymous proxy server networks. This is according to an investigation by Xlab, which has been tracking the new campaign since last November, reporting that the botnet peaked on January 14, 2025, […]

Zyxel has issued a security advisory about actively exploited flaws in CPE Series devices, warning that it has no plans to issue fixing patches and urging users to move to actively supported models. VulnCheck discovered the two flaws in July 2024, but last week, GreyNoise reported having seen exploitation attempts in the wild. According to […]